Quasars, Carbon Stars, Bass Guitars...
GOOD QUOTES:
"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to
man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees
all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern."
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
"We are all lying in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the
stars."
- Oscar Wilde
"Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is
excellent."
- Chairman Mao Tse Tung
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
- Groucho
My CV (PDF format)
SCIENCE EDUCATION ,
including my 2002 book on
Peer
Instruction For Astronomy (a teacher's guide for introductory
undergraduate astronomy). See some popular science articles too.
The Chandra X-ray Observatory
where I work in the Director's Office. And a
HOBBIES especially playing
bass with
The Wicked
Pickers . Before that,
J.P. Tropicale with Cornell Coley, before that,
the Little Big Band
Feed the Meter .
The is from
Hubble, showing
a distant cluster of (mostly red) galaxies acting as a gravitational
lens, producing the optical illusion of 4 (blue) images of the same
background quasar.
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